Length
- Architect's scale, a ruler-like device which facilitates the production of technical drawings
- Engineer's scale, a ruler-like device similar to the Architect's scale, they are helpful when drawing rooms
- Linear scale, a means of showing the scale of a map, chart, or drawing
- Vernier scale, a scale that allows for higher precision than a uniformly-divided straight or circular measurement scale
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Famous quotes containing the word length:
“The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use you make of them; he has lived for a long time who has little lived.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“He thought he saw an Elephant,
That practiced on a fife:
He looked again, and found it was
A letter from his wife.
“At length I realize,” he said,
“The bitterness of Life!””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fallibility that goes with human judgment, can rate them, and that at least an attempt is made to measure their worth to an organization in relative terms, they are likely to sink back on length of service as the sole reason for retention and promotion.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)